Hanoi Leader Reported Gravely Ill
The article notes Ho Chi Minh may be gravely ill while detailing ongoing Vietnam War actions. U.S. and South Vietnamese forces engage Viet Cong and North Vietnamese units around Saigon, Song Be, and An Loc with multiple casualties reported on both sides. The Viet Minh history and North Vietnamese push for total American withdrawal frame the report.
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South Vietnam
Saigon
U.S. 1St Air Cavalry Division
U.S
Green Berets
Song Be
Gion
Cambodia
Rain Deluge Swamps Mexico City and Southern Regions
Four days of steady rain flood Mexico City with a fifth day of downpour. Vital services kept functioning while streets flooded and several inches fell. Southern Mexico remains inundated after two weeks of rain, forcing about 200000 people from their homes and sending 30000 to higher ground.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Solons Clash Over Tax Proposals In State Panel Session
Lawmakers slugged it out as a tax plan to raise the gas tax from seven to eight percent sparked heated exchanges. Hall's measure would raise the state sales tax, cigarette tax, and levy new charges on movies, liquor, and other items while restricting origin rules for sales tax. Flooding across Veracruz and Puebla left towns submerged, roads blocked, and thousands displaced as crews fought mud and rising waters along the Gulf coast.
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Moore
Schwartz
Hall
Texas
North Carolina
Housewives
Local Births Reported Across City Hospitals
A series of birth notices lists multiple families in Lubbock and Reese AFB areas welcoming new babies. Parents include Hodge, Bramslett, Cardona, Crews, Harrison, Yer, Sepedia, Flores, Morgan, Hinojosa, and others, with newborns ranging from 6 to 9 pounds. Hospitals include Highland and Reese AFB Hospital. Fathers’ occupations span Frito-Lay, Austin Sporting Goods, and local companies. several fathers are stationed at Reese.
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Johnnie Lee Hodge
Highland Hospital
Frito-Lay, Inc
Billy Ray Bramslett
40Th, St
Austin Sporting Goods
Ramon A. Cardona
Reese Apital
Reese
Barton P. Crews
Ce St
Ese
Ray D. Harrison
Sores
Bates Vilage
Reese Afb Hospital
Conrado L. Sepedia
N. Ave. N
Reese Afb
Southeast Asia
Mike Morgan
Lubbock Osteopathic Hospital
Fenner Tubbs Co
Record Heat and Heavy Rain Mark Torrid Summer in Hub City
The 106 degree high on June 21 ranked fourth, with 107 on June 2 1957 and 109 in 1936 the all time high. August rainfall totaled 2.59 inches, after a severe deluge, electricity and water use hit new records as the torrid streak eased.
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The
Mercury
Johnson
South Plains
Weather Bureau
Spain records 853 road deaths in July August
Madrid AP reports Spain’s traffic administration says 853 people died in traffic accidents during July and August, the peak vacation months, up from 809 in the same period last year.
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Madrid
Spain
Nixon fills two vacancies on National Selective Service Appeal Board
President Nixon named Levi Jackson of Detroit and Elmer Banks Jr of Winter Park Fla to the three member civilian panel. Jackson, a former Yale football star, is with Ford Motor Co Dearborn and Banks is president of Commercial Bank Winter Park and other banks. They replace Henry Hwiazda and Kenneth Clement who resigned.
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Calif
Nixon
National Selective Service Appeal Board
Yale
Levi Jackson
Detroit
Elmer Banks Jr
Winter Park
Fla
Jackson
Ford Motor Co
Dearborn
Mich
Banks
Commercial Bank of
South Seminole Bank
Fern Park
Combanks Corp
Henry Hwiazda
Kenneth Clement
Appeal Board
HEW Defers Funds Over Segregation Policy in Lubbock
HEW defers new funds to an official policy of racial segregation in Lubbock schools. The district maintains separate white and Negro schools staffed accordingly. Williams disputes the allegation, noting six schools are involved and reporting HEW action as legally prompted. Additional Texas districts also notified.
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Williams
Dunbar High School
Stragegs
Ella ‘Ties
Wheatley
Ichools
HEW
Lubbock
Attaorneys
Texas
Atlanta
Spring
Ferris
Hearne
Trinity
Former Jamaica Chief Succumbs
Kingston Jamaica AP Norman Washington Manley former prime minister of Jamaica died at his family home early Tuesday He was 76 Manley headed the People's National Party and led Jamaica as prime minister from 1956 to 1961 during self government under the British crown He supported West Indian federation which did not prevail In 1962 Alexander Bustamante defeated Manley to become Jamaica s first prime minister Manley later served as opposition leader.
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Jamaica
Norman Washington Manley
Manley
Island
People’s National Party
Alexander Bustamente
Pike
Myers
Oklahoma City
University of California
Yale
The
Securities and Exchange Commission
Washington
George Washington University
Daily pollen counts from city health unit report
The Avalanche-Journal presents the pollen count from the City Health Unit with several sites listed. Site 5 at Zeniths shows 2 000 particles per cubic centimeter while Site 2 at Ave X records 2 889 particles.
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Avalanche-Journal
County Health Unit
Tricomes
Utica
Ave. X
Ave. Rio
Pike's exiled minister seeks religious shift with new center
The 25 year veteran bishop and former lawyer, Leo Pike, left the organized Christian church to set up the Foundation for Religious Transition in Santa Barbara. He aims to study Christian origins and the Dead Sea Scrolls while his wife and mother await his return after a trip described as research.
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Pike
Jim
Santa Barbara
Pearl Chambers
Organized Christian Church
Foundation For
Look Magazine
C. Kilmer Myers
Bishop Myers
San Francisco
12 Counts Face Man In Houston
Indictments charging Carnell Bradley, 27, with 12 crimes issued by a grand jury. He faces three robberies four house burglaries and raping four women all alleged to occur on the night of July 13 in Houston.
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Houston
Carnell Bradley
Bradley
Severe storms bring heavy rain and fires to Yoakum County area
A line of thunderstorms dumped up to 2.7 inches in an hour in Yoakum County with hail and flooding. Lightning sparked three fires at a tank battery washing machine and transformer near Denver City. Minor street flooding occurred across the region and highways washed out near Lamesa. Weather officials warned of more rain with a 20 percent chance in some areas as temperatures cooled and long range forecasts called for scattered showers statewide. One person died and 11 were injured in Akron Ohio when lightning struck a store.
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U.S
iAerial
South Vietnam
Johnson
Yoakum County
Denver City
Brownfield
Lamesa
Seagraves
Seminole
Plains
Andrews
Snyder
Hobbs
Lavington
Larbbock
Weather Bureau
Othey
Lorents
Hale Center
Milleshoe
Tahoka
Post
Ralls
Littlefield
Amarillo
Plainview
Panhandle
Houston
Intercontinental
el Paso
Midland
Texas
Midwest
Southern Plains
Pacific Northwest
Akron
Ohio
Youth Kills Self Protesting War at Capitol
A 15 year old Gregory Rogers of Alexandria Virginia shot himself on the Capitol west front terrace Tuesday evening in protest of the Vietnam War. Police found a 32 caliber pistol beside the body and a note reading tell them to cry in peace. He was pronounced dead at Rogers Memorial Hospital.
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Washington
UPI
Capitol
Vietnam
District of Columbia
Greg Rogers
Alexandria
West Front
Viettnam
Rogers Memorial Hospital
AOU Announces Partial Construction Block Amid Inflation Drive
An AOU plan to pause new projects with full restrictions starting April 1 faces expected controversy. Officials say the move aims to curb inflation and redirect funds to housing, though one administration source calls it more a cutback than a halt.
Night of looting and arson hits Hartford
A second night of looting and fires rocked Hartford's North End from 7 pm to 5 am as curfew and state police failed to quell the unrest. Three sniper incidents targeted patrols while arson and tear gas filled the air. Police reported 158 arrests by 7:30 pm and about 70 stores damaged across two days. Mayor Ann Ueces So returned from Maine to inspect the area.
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Conn
Negro
Puerto Rico
Ann Uecesso
Maine
North End
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